Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Artwork by Marty Baumann: martybaumann.com

"The Dark Eidolon" is a Zothique Cycle story by Clark Ashton Smith, first published in the January 1935 edition of Weird Tales. "A powerful, vivid and eery tale of the tremendous doom that was loosed upon the kingdom of Xylac by a vengeful sorcerer."

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0:00:00 - Introduction
0:01:14 - One
0:17:42 - Two
0:45:38 - Three
1:15:25 - Further Listening

Narrated by Ian Gordon for HorrorBabble
Music and production by Ian & Jennifer Gordon

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